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Best summer reads - win over £600 worth!

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CariGransnet (GNHQ) Wed 22-May-19 14:27:01

If you're after ideas for what to read this summer, look no further than our round-up of the best summer reads for 2019.

One very lucky person can win all the books featured on the page - worth over £600.

To enter, simply tell us your favourite female character from a book (old or new and from any genre).

A winner will be drawn at random at midday on Monday 15 July. Usual terms and conditions apply. Note that because of the size and weight of the prize box, we are only able to deliver to mainland UK addresses.

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bonji Fri 24-May-19 19:07:39

Ruth Galloway from the novels by Ellie Griffiths. There are so many from my earlier reading so thought I would give a current one.

GrannyBear Fri 24-May-19 19:19:23

Jane Eyre without a doubt!

Barleysugar Fri 24-May-19 19:25:37

Karen .
Meet Me on the Beach
by Hilary Boyd.

yellowcanary Fri 24-May-19 20:12:38

Temperance Brennan (Bones) by Kathy Reichs

Priviliged Fri 24-May-19 20:18:55

Elizabeth Bennet from Pride and Prejudice who waited to marry for love!

LizaJane24 Fri 24-May-19 20:33:51

Jane Eyre

hulahoop Fri 24-May-19 21:27:30

Eleano r Oliphant i w as lucky enough to review this after being sent this from grandest the character Eleanor appealed to all ages

matson Fri 24-May-19 21:34:47

I misread the question doh!
Tara Westover from her memoir "Educated "

grannydarkhair Fri 24-May-19 22:55:25

Angelique de Xavia, from several books by Chris Brookmyre.

jmo Sat 25-May-19 02:47:33

Zelda Fitzgerald, wife of F Scott Fitzgerald, the subject of Nancy Milford's 1970 biography.

chrisma232 Sat 25-May-19 05:29:44

Jane Eyre as she's always captivated me since i was a teen and read the book.I've read the book so many times and she's always stood out in my memory.

Suema Sat 25-May-19 07:17:25

Dellarobia Turnbow from Barbara Kingsolver s Flight Behaviour. An unusual climate change activist!

Annie29 Sat 25-May-19 07:33:01

Heidi

Katyj Sat 25-May-19 08:05:08

Jane Eyre

Struggling2do1 Sat 25-May-19 09:53:16

Tilly Trotter, by good old Catherine Cookson

Valski Sat 25-May-19 09:56:53

The original moderniser and my first feminist icon, Lady
Brett Ashley of Hemingway’s The Sun Also Rises, a world away from the chaste heroines I was used to in literature.

TM278 Sat 25-May-19 11:38:09

Lisbeth Salander
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

alanfgee8 Sat 25-May-19 12:04:54

Kinsey Millhone in the late Sue Grafton's alphabetical private eye series - the best.

Lotie Sat 25-May-19 12:11:58

Elizabeth Bennett Pride andPrejudice

Russellsgal Sat 25-May-19 13:03:34

Madeleine Maxwell from Jodi Taylor’s St Mary s chronicles

annsixty Sat 25-May-19 13:17:54

Always Elizabeth Bennett.
A well rounded woman, ahead of her time with her views.

Jeanlizzie Sat 25-May-19 14:23:01

Loads but cathy earnshaw in wuthering heights or depending on mood The second Mrs DeWinter in Rebecca

eGJ Sat 25-May-19 14:44:13

Flavia Alba in the Linsey Davis series (the adopted daughter of Falco now an investigator in her own right!!

BrandyButter Sat 25-May-19 14:55:38

Mrs Mayhew by Milly Johnson

lemongrove Sat 25-May-19 15:13:59

Arya Stark from Game Of Thrones ( A Song Of Ice And Fire)

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